Multiplex composing mechanism.



W. BANCROPT. MULTIPLEX GOMPOSING MBCHANISM.

PPLIATIN 'LED MAR. 5, 1908` 925,073o Patented June 15, 1909.

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W, BANGROFT. MULTPLEX GOMPOSNG MEGHANISM. APPLIUATION FILED MAR. 5,1909.

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muewkoz W. BANCROFT/ MULTIPLEX GOMPOSING MEGHANISM.

v APPLIGATON FILED MAR. 5, 1908. l 925,073u Patented June 15, f1909.

W. BANGROFT. MULTIPLEX GoMEoSNG MEGHANISM.

APPLICATION FILED HAR. 5. 1908.

Patented June l5, 1909.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

PATENT minion.

NsYLvANIAfAssionon 'ro ininsron nono- Nsiiiviinia, i ooiiroiiii'i'ioN orMULTIPLEX COMPOSING MECHANISM.

Patented June 15, 1909.

Application lediMareh 5, 1908. Serial No. 419.3%`

To all whom it may concrrn.'

of Philadelphia, in the'eoiinty ol Philadeh certain new and usefulImprovement in Mnltiplex Composing Mechanisms: and I herebv declare theiol exact description ol the saine, re'lei'enee lieing had to theaccompanying drawings, forining a part ol this specification, and to thefig'- ures and letters of reference marked thereon.

This invention has for its object the simultaneous composition oi'setting up o'l' plural representations or copies of in justiiied todifferent measure oi' of different setwise dime in eharz'xcters nsionsor both.

It is well known that in composing' mattei' i in justified lines regardmust he had l'or the set size of the faces as well as the measure, forwhile the latter determines the space available for each line of type,the former affects the number of characters or vpe and of justifying:rspaces or word intervals hence the division of charaeters at the end ofilie lino i and the dimensions of tions.

For example, mattei' set or composed in pica or 12 point and justifiedto a mi'iasure of sav 30 eins, il in agate orif point will but partiallyiill the ineasure, 'requiring that a portion of the next succeeding'pica line be included therein, llius establishingr not only a differentending ioitlie line, but a dili'ercnt justification fraction; and thesaine true if two lines :ire composed in the saine type but thejustifying' fracto diilei'ent measure. the longer line will ndmit morecharacters :ind

spaces, :ind include mattei' carried over into the succeeding' shorterline. And in either ease where one of the lines of duplicated inatterends in the middle of a word it becomes necessary to add a hyphen whichd con'iplemental line composed or to a different measure,

laeli of correspond enee in. the two products,

it has heretofore been deemed impraetieable i to simultaneously composeoi' set up duplicate copies of the saine mattei' in justiiied lineswhere the setwise dimensions of the font or the"measure,dii'ei'ed in thetwo copies, notwithstanding the desirability 'of so doing on the scoreof economy. These difficulties have, however, been removed or overcomeby the present invention which, in its broader aspects, is applicablealike to the various in different face i Because oi" this zitter inlines i j classes :ind kind Be it known that I, Wniirnnn BANeiioii'r.

equipped wiil in the linotyjiie7 mal rix mali'inir a a printing, printlowinfar to be a full, eleai', and

indirectly, as in tems, io produee tion or pattern wl matie meehantsniioi' the printing' or Vnnpi i competent means 'toi' e. justification andphia, State of Pennsylvania, have inifented a s ol' composing machinesi'ecting in;n either directly, as

scttiiio', ti'pcwi'iting', nd like machines, to `iroduce ed or impressedsuri'i .'e, or, the monotvpe :ind lilie sysa preliminarjP representaiiehin turn .controls autoproduction o'l' the 'essed surface so impressedopera t type upon said fniittcrl'i.

ln addition lo nient illusti'aled siste, broadly, in

tion with a plural equipped witl ing mechanism, selective ineiiihemultiple with cori'espoin vices, or some oll dividnal con'iposing uniltheir action tei those oll one or more unil to the seleeting' at theseveral u performed and prof-ee at one or more units is and, il`necessary, a

upon thc jusiili( that unit are hi intei'lirenee with the other eon'ipoliple coniposilioi the units and continued g arrives at the justihcaiionstage, oes not appear at all in the tho employment in conneeily ollcomposing iinii's each icliara'lei' designaningl and lino justil'uvnigdevices or mec hanismfil oi a selccsuch as a keyboard, whose rs orlri'iys are connected in ling' character des-- olthe several units` sothat arzictcrs ma)Y he i-iiiiiiiliaiietogether with controllable thecharacter selecting; dethem', pertaining to the ins may he cul` out oi'nporarilifY suspended while s are free. to respond leviccs, so tliatcomposition nits can be simultaneously ded with until the line'completed lo measure, h vphen added, wherei devices pertaining' to iightinto action, without orl`i'om those pertaining to sine; units, alterwhich innl resumed uponv all until another line, the addi-t i ma)r hetional mattei' being incorporated in and rforniing part of tl ie nextsnceeedin g line, ,at the unit where justif 'ation was first performed.

in the aecoinj )anying d ine,` a preferred forni of embedimma-Figore 1is a lront eleva composing mach tion through one a lock-out applied Viewv'and Fig'. 4

ting and jiistiiieatioii indicator valves. 5 is a i'liagrammatie viewtion of a muliplex controller ine. Fig'. 2 is a vertical see-. of theeomposing'iinits with thereto. Fig. 25 is a face a section through thereset- Fig,

showing the controlconnections. Fig. (i is a top plan view of 'amultiplex liiioty po machine embodyingv the rawings, illustrat- (Siisions of the justiicstior.

Y justification indicato? i 6 for advancing the justifie, on indio H asfully iiescribed in the aioressi and scope of the present iin'mitioi'i,it shown as zip )iisd in Connection with tvo known but issiiniini formsof com units representative of the indirrfct ciasses mentionedy io Wit,ii, monotyp strip composing machine and ai iino Je 1 mnmonion iii withbranch connecions inscri tri); composing and sing c in 1t 1s to beunderstood imt iii ioni iiinstrfitlons smi that other mii iin;

forms may be empio* ,i idi body ohfirzicter destin i inca-ns forfiustiying die i ies es t Referring iirst to the mono'iJ ferred form oionlin/)dini 'to 5 inciusiw i frame upon which :n ing units B, loc-steils. ing unit or keybmirii front oi and between me com that the operatorins); remii J progress ina-de et either or both no units.

The essential eiernents of eeen con" sing unit are a. series ofcharacter und spsoe designating lnembersenfi a justification inconnu?ism including means for indicating the amount of space remaining to oefilled by justification, together with in? ing n'proportionate i theline.

The composing u. identiooi. with ti dated Jniy l', i900 gustw06, omittunit Contains a seri o, Y ein; designating; rnenii'iers in tir i, and a.iustiiicntion meeimni r forro of inmunes justification indicstoi annicarini series of punches i. in fi-Jdition, @son rovideci with recordstri@ i f ism 3; actuating or sot per.

return cylinders j and measuring sind justiiost', enisms; ok releasemotor 2 'for indicator mechanism; resetting controlling the motor ondmotoretnrn @yinder and release motor fyfor returning the line messuringand instiicstion indicator deu vices to zero osition when s, iin-e ofcompo* sition is competed anti justified; miti s justiiozition indicator*mitre isi. oentioiiing motor 'the 'enriches oi' L sinifie coinoosinffunit B,

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l; trois corresponding desigi siting elements of two or more units,which is sccompiisned by' i providing nach oi' the pipes or haies otcoina the corrcspondiiivf osigiiedevices seve si nuits indionted,oiziigrznn i mesiiy, in To enable time Character minimizing den of anyeoniposinfg mit to separately si, :is where 1t desi fri to int-orpoiate"ri change the face or font, @dd n 1 oxeinsion o the forni this incitent:function 'for two reasons;

into the oompositioi'r, 'whiie the other repre i 't nach key is coupledin niuitipie with and conl unit E, is c font in. the io r zniber i?, isnp-- `n be i. texrposr between Manns i oifeiiyingg the punch trimming.V i, fr? ed nearing on the traso n. sind nisino i? is in t tiveposition it Wilii inter :p1- zind prevent the nominee of the punches 95'i when pressure is applied to their motors 2 through the sotion of thekeys of the seiecting member Esch iockout is provided with appropriate tig devices such is n piston 1 rs 100 spring 20, and. in order to ins oout or soppressi@ .l oi' the jos 't a oi ne conig'iosingt 'viii ationsignss or iiriorations el mit nino-thor nm., the ojy'i" 105 g .Y ioekootnl ton i9 pertainin o tiefA i iit hand u is compiled, is jsy' .pe 2i, lwith zii-C, pipe "z'introiiei ilf ji ation inti ifi 13.0

mine ot' eine tractor anches oi' the nani or ron n n-resg ser f Y zingunit C, teifeiing with the intters eontroi over me nii-rector 120designeting andv instit'd ing devices of the iinit Whose justiiicationindicator key at the time noted upon, hence any cimrecte i may be added,to the iine or ne per-- formes st one composing unit without the boingcarried over into the compositionotiier unit. i 'be remarked that theustifief vor key nos been seiected to per No iirst, because itsoperation does not in any respect interfere with the action of thecomposing unit with which it is associated, inasmuchias it merelyoperates to eiiect the advance of the justification scale to theposition determined by the line measuring devices without, however,arresting the latter, hence itcan be operated at anyA stage in thecomposition of a line; and, second, because said key is normallyactuated preliminary to the formation ot' the justification signal,hence at a time when it is necessary to cut out the punches 0l` thecompanion unit B, in

order that the justification signals may not be reproduced at the lastnamed unit.,

The manner of using` the duplex machine described is as follows:Assuming that two co ies of the same matter are to be composed eit er intype of different set-wise dimensions and to the same line measure, intype of the Same set-Wise dimensions but to different line measures, orin type of different set-wise dimensions and to ditl'erent linemeasures. The line measuring devices of the two composing units B-arefirst set for lines of the required length, and composition is proceededwith as usual by striking in succession the keys of the selecting unitC, representing the characters, spaces etc. until the signal devices atone'of t e composing units advises the operator that the line on thecorresponding unit is nearly or quite completed,.whereupon he depressesthe justification indicator keyf pertaining to that unit, therebyadvancing the justi'l'ication indicator to registering position, yat thesame time locking out the punches otthe other unit B whose line is asyet incomplete. W'hile holding the justification indicator key depressedhe ascertains the keys required for justifying that line, depresses theindicated eys, to produce the justification signal perforations,releases the justification indicator key and depresscs the restoringkeyof the unit Whose line is thus justified. Thus the line at one com osingunit iscompleted and justified while t at at the other unit is onlypartlycomposed. Multiple composition is now resumed and continued untilthe signal devices indicate that the lineat the second unit iscompleted, the added matter being composed as part of the nextsucceeding line4 at the first unit, Wliereupon the justifying andrestoring operations are repeated, but

this time with reference to the second unit,k alone. ,j Referring to thealternative form of embodiment ol' the principle as illustrated in Figs.6 and 7, the composing units l) are linotype machines of wel knownconstruction, such, for example, as Athat illustrated 1n Patent No.436,532, dated Septl, 1890, minus the usual key bank, each equippedwitha series of character and space designating members, represented bythe series of igodsO through which lthe matrix and space escapements areactuated, and provided with the usual justification mechanism, of whichvthe starting or assembly block lifting lever 31, line scale and signalbell are constituent elements. As in the .case of the duplex monotypecomposing machine hereinbefore described the two composing units D areso disposed witli relation to each other and the selecting unit orkeyboard E that the line measuring devices and justifying levers 31 ofboth shall be read-ily accessible to the operator. Each key of thecomposing unit is coupled in multiplewith corresponding designatingmembers or rods 30 oi the two composing units D in a manner to producesimultaneous action and a consequent delivery of similar characters orspacers iii the two lines, and, in addition, each series of rods 3() isprovided with a lockout by which one series may be thrown out of actionwhile the other is l'ree to respond to the keys. A competent connectingmechanism or system lor this purpose is illustrated, wherein eachdesignating rod'3() is provided with a lever 32 and motor 33.Corresponding motors 33 of the two units are connected through a pipe orpipes 35 with a valve 36 controlled by the key representing thecharacter or space assigned t-o the designating rod 30. Located inproximity to each sei-ies ol designating rods 3() in position to engageshoulders or projections 37 thereon is a bar 38 pivot-ally supportedand'provided with a motor 39, the latter couiled with a valve 4()connected tf- .t lockout key 41, there being a key 41 'for eacheoinposing unit. The inode ofoperation is similar to that'hereinbeforedescribed with reference to the monotype .composing machine. Compositionis simultaneously perl'ormed on the two units until the operatorobserves that oney line. is completed and ready for justification,whereupon he dcpresses the justifying lever pertaining to the unit whoseline is shown to be complete, thereby automatically justifying said lineand restoring the .line measuringdevices to initial position for the'reception of a new line after which multiple composition is resumed andcontinued until the line of the second unit is completed when theprocess is repeated with relation to said second composing unit.

I am aware that it has heretofore been proposed to actuat-e a pluralityof composing units from a single keyboard for the production ofduplicate copies of the same matter,

as illustrated in Patents 663,971 of Dec. 18, 1900, and 279,790 of June19, 1883, but they diiie'r essentially from my present invention, inthat but a single justification mechanism common to the severalcomposing units is einployed instead of a separate justificationmechanism fori'each of said units hence the several lines produced, ifjustifiedat all, must be identical both in the mattei' and in measure.

Josed thereon and a selecting unit commonl to all the com osiiig units.

2. In a mu tiplex com osing mechanism such as describe( the com mationof the rollowing elements, to Wit; a plurality of composing unitseachequipped with character designatmgand line justitying devices, 1n-

cluding means lor measuring the line as com-` posed; and a selectingunit provided with a series of selecting members or keys each of i thelatter coupled in multiple with corresponding designating devices of thecomposing units.

3. In a multi lex composing mechanism such as describe the combinationol' a plurality of composing units each containing means for justifyingthe lines composed thereon, and a selecting unit provided with a seriesof selecting members each coupled lWith corresponding designatingdevices of the several com osing units and located. in

Such relation an roximity to said coinposing units that thejustiiication devices tliere-f of Will be under the directol'iservatioii and control oi the operator at said selecting' unit.

4. In a multi lex composing mechanism such as describe the combinationof the iollowing elements, to wit; a plurality of composing units eachprovider with a series of designating members, means for measuring andjustifying the line, and a lockout for its designating members; aselecting unit pro# vided with selecting members, each coupled withcorresponding designation members of i the several composing units; andmeans for separately actuating said lockouts.

5. In a multiplex composing mechanism suoli as described, thecombination with a ol com osing units each provided l With a series of caracter designating memplurality L unit.

bers, a justifying mechanism and a lockout for said 'characterdesignating members, of a selecting unit provided with a series ofselecting ykers each coupled with corresponding designating members ofthe several composing'units and with a plurality of keys, one for eaclicomposing unit, coupled with said lockouts.

6. In a multi lex composing mechanism sudh as describe rovided with aplurality of composing an justifying units each equipped With a lockoutfor its designating members, Aand iii-combination therewith, a keyboardor 'selecting unit common to the several composing units provided Withmeans for separately controlling the lockouts and restoring the linemeasuring devices of the several composing and justifying units.

` 7. In. a multi lex composing mechanism such as described),

lowing elements, to Wit; a plurality of composing and justifying unitseach provided with a series ot' character designating members and linejustifying devices including line measuring inechanisni'and resetting orrestoring devices; a plurality ollockouts, one

for each series 'of' 'character designating members; and a selectingunit or keyboard Whose selecting members or keys are each coupled inmultiple with the corresponding character designating devices of' theseveral composing units, and provided in addition. with a 'plurality of'keys, two for each composing and justifying unit, tlie one controllingthe resetl ting devices and the other the lockout.

8. In a multiplex composing mechanism such as described, the combinationWith a plurality of' composing and justifying units each provided with aseries ofdesignating members, a lockout therefor, a' justiiicationindicatorvand means for positioning the lat- `ter, of a selecting unitcommon to the designating members of the composing units, and aplurality of justification indicator keys, one for each composing'unit,the justification in dicator key of each composing unit control-- lingthe lockout of the companion composing Wiiirinin Biiuonorir.

Witnesses Cries. Bannsnnr, Son. IiaAzirii.

the combination of the fol-

